The Faces of Terrorism: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780470753804 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 320 str.

David Canter

Opis

An international, multi-disciplinary team explores the many different facets of terrorism, investigating what it means to be a terrorist and what terrorism means for society.

• Gets closer to the perspectives of terrorists - their views, how their acts are conceptualized by the public and by national leaders, and how this knowledge can be put to use
• Brings together international experts from psychology, psychiatry, law and policing
• Edited by one of the world's foremost forensic psychology experts, David Canter

Recenzje

"Terrorism changes so rapidly that everything published from an academic viewpoint is almost always two years out of date .... so it is no small achievement that this book largely succeeds in what it sets out to do". (Human Givens, 2010)

Spis treści

List of Contributors.

Preface.

1. The Multi–Facetted Nature of Terrorism: An Introduction (David Canter).

2.From Naïvety to Insurgency: Becoming a Paramilitary in Northern Ireland(Neil Ferguson, and Mark Burgess).

3. The Rhetorical Foundation of Militant (Sudhanshu Sarangi and David Canter).

4. Case study: The Puzzling Case (from a Western Perspective) of Lone Terrorist Faheem Khalid Lodhi (Clive Williams).

5. The Primacy of Grievance as A Structural Cause Of Oppositional Political Terrorism: Comparing Al Fatah, Farc, and Pira (Jeffrey Ian Ross).

6. Case Study: The 17^th November Group: Europe s Last Revolutionary Terrorists. (George Kassimeris).

7. Terrorism and Organized Crime: A Theoretical Perspective (Dipak K. Gupta, John Horgan and Alex P. Schmid).

8. Terrorist Networks and Small Group Psychology (Sam Mullins).

9. Case Study: Youth Gangs and Terrorism in Chechnya: Recruitment, Activities and Networks (Michael Vishnevetsky).

10. The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend (Kevin Borgeson and Robin Valeri).

11. The Business of Kidnap for Ransom (Everard Phillips).

12. Case Study: Ramzan Kadyrov in Chechnya: Authoritarian Leadership in the Caucasus (John Russell).

13. From 7/7 to 8/10: Media Framing of Terrorist Incidents in the United States and United Kingdom (Mary Danis and Michael Stohl).

14. Cyberterrorism: The Emerging Worldwide Threat (Amanda M. Sharp Parker).

15. Disengaging from Terrorism (John Horgan).

16. De–radicalization and the Staircase from Terrorism (Fathali M. Moghaddam).

Index.

O autorze

David Canter is Professor of Psychology and Director of the International Research Centre for Investigative Psychology at the University of Huddersfield, and founding editor of the Wiley Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling. He has worked with police forces all over the world on ′profiling′, which led to the emergence of Investigative Psychology. This has included unique studies of terrorists. Since 1986, Professor Canter has contributed to over 150 investigations of many different kinds of crimes around the world, and was recently awarded a BPS Honorary Fellowship. He has also written two award–winning books, Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer (1995) and Mapping Murder: The Secrets of Geographical Profiling (2003).

Blurb

In The Faces of Terrorism, an international selection of experts, from a variety of disciplines, provide professional perspectives on a range of issues surrounding terrorism today. While focusing on current concerns with terrorism that has its roots in Islam, the book also explores links between organized crime and radical violence, and examines a variety of terrorist acts beyond bombing, such as kidnapping for ransom and cyberterrorism. The contributors also examine the dynamics of social networks, which have come to play an essential role for terrorist groups. The subtleties of all these processes are illustrated with fascinating case studies of terrorists around the globe.

This book offers a much needed account of a growing consensus across different disciplines about the variegated nature of terrorism. Bringing together state–of–the–field perspectives on this increasingly important topic, it shows that counter–insurgency activities need to embrace the public rhetoric that castigates terrorism, as well as engage with processes that could potentially place people on pathways to violent political action.